Now that I have a bunch of blog posts the home page was getting rather length so I decided to add a paging mechanism for blog posts.
This goes along with adding full caching for blog posts to make...
Friday, 09 August 2024 12:50
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3 minute read
One of the things that annoyed me about my current setup was having to use Google Analytics to get visitor data (what little there is of it ??). So I wanted to find something I could self-host that...
Thursday, 08 August 2024 15:53
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5 minute read
Small Posts FTW
Small but potentially useful solution to a problem I was having. Namely, how to generate a GUID from a string input where the Guid is always valid but unique for any given input...
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 17:17
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1 minute read
RSS (and Atom) is still the only widely adopted format for syndicating content. It's a simple XML format that can be consumed by a wide range of feed readers. In this post, I'll show you how to add an...
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 13:53
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3 minute read
##Introduction
In my previous post I detailed how to send emails using FluentEmail and the SMTP Client. However one issue with this is the delay in sending emails. SMTP servers tend to be slow and can...
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 08:15
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4 minute read
This is a fairly simple article but will cover some of the odness of using FluentEmail in ASP.NET Core to send HTML emails I haven't seen elsewhere.
The Problem
Sending HTML mails is itself kinda...
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 00:30
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5 minute read
This just popped up on Facebook, an old image of me in my office at Microsoft.
Office at Microsoft
A long long time ago in a country far, far away I was a lowly PMII at Microsoft. I was working on the...
Tuesday, 06 August 2024 21:30
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2 minute read
NOTE: WORK IN PROGRESS
I've been looking for a simple comment system for my blog that uses Markdown. I couldn't find one that I liked, so I decided to write my own. This is a simple comment system...
Tuesday, 06 August 2024 18:50
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2 minute read
In this app I wanted to add a simpple mechanism of allowing login to add comments (and some admin tasks) to the app. I wanted to use Google Auth for this purpose. I did not want to use the ASP.NET...
Monday, 05 August 2024 08:06
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6 minute read
EasyNMT is a locally installable service that provides a simple interface to a number of machine translation services. In this tutorial, we will use EasyNMT to automatically translate a Markdown file...
Saturday, 03 August 2024 13:30
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7 minute read
